Nominjin
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Nominjin is a Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

n rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 singer and song-writer.

Early life

Raised by her Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

n biological mother and American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 stepfather, she has lived in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

 due to her parents' work; as a result, she speaks fluent English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Mongolian
Mongolian language
The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner...

 and several other languages including Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 and Malayalam
Malayalam language
Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

. Some media reports state that she speaks English better than Mongolian.

Career

Nominjin launched her career in 2003 at age 14 after studying under vocal coach Roger Love. She has toured abroad in Russia (Irkutsk
Irkutsk
Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...

), the United States (Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

), Turkey, India, the Caribbean, Singapore, South Korea, France, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. According to her website she has performed in front of crowds of more than 40,000 people on numerous occasions, including at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2005, she contributed her voice to the John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 remix album Peace, Love & Truth
Peace, Love & Truth
Peace, Love & Truth is a compilation album of music celebrating John Lennon and Yoko Ono's songs for peace, released only in Asian and Australian markets in August 2005...

. In 2007, EMI Records
EMI Records
EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide...

 released her cover of "Take Me to Your Heart" on the compilation Best of 10 Years: Love. She has had more than ten #1 hits, released more than 12 music videos, and won numerous awards. Her biggest career hit was performed with Bold, a member of Camerton; she sang numerous songs for his first album.

Though only 20 years old, Nominjin has already distinguished herself by performing alongside such global greats as Erin Hill (Billboard #1 artist), Shoji (Grammy nominated 2010), Kenny Endo (soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) and Rupert Hine (producer of Tina Turner, Sheik Duncan and many others) and others. Nominjin has studied under World renowned vocal coaches Roger Love(2003–2008), Khongorzul (2009) and Paulette McWillams Paulette McWilliams(2010).

Nominjin has been a featured singer and sometimes host of major performances in 13 countries, including a 50,000 person peace festival at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, co-hosting and performing for an international conference of 30,000 in Thailand, co-hosting and featured singer for an 80,000 person concert in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and co-hosting a MTV show. She has performed multiple times for foreign and Mongolian audiences in the USA and has toured in Turkey, Thailand, India, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, the Caribbean, Mexico, and France.

Nominjin was voted as 1st runner up for Asia’s “Sexiest Vegetarian” and is currently the focus of an international pro-vegetarian and anti-fur ad campaign by PETA.Org Not only is Nominjin an accomplished English and Mongolian singer, she also sings in Hindi, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese Korean and Japanese. Having lived in Mongolia, the Caribbean, the USA, India and Russia, she is multi-lingual. As a song-writer, with nearly 100 songs thus far penned, all songs on her latest album were written by her (both words and music).

Further reading

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